Baconized Tuna with Lemon Butter
Recipe from Fine Cooking Books

There's some perverse pleasure in taking a low-in-fat, good-for-you protein like tuna and surrounding it with bacon fat and butter. You're still going to get the health benefits of eating the tuna, but you'll also experience the pure joy of having the fat.


Baconized Tuna with Lemon Butter

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Servings: Serves six
Related Categories: Dinner, Fish and Seafood, Grilled Tuna, Grilling, Tuna, Tuna Steak
 
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Ingredients
  • 12 
    slices bacon, preferably peppered or apple-wood smoked
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  • 6 
    8-ounce tuna steaks, 1 inch thick
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  • 1/2  cup
    (1 stick) unsalted butter
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  • 1  medium
    garlic clove, minced
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  • 1/4  cup
    fresh lemon juice
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  • 2  tablespoons
    chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
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    Canola oil
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    Kosher salt
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    Freshly ground black pepper
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Directions
1.
Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Poach the bacon slices in the boiling water for 3 minutes, then drain them. Wrap each tuna steak with 2 slices of bacon and secure with a wooden skewer or toothpick.
2.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the garlic, lemon juice, and parsley. Set aside, keeping warm.
3.
Oil the grill racks. Preheat your grill using all burners set on high and with the lid closed for 10 to 12 minutes.
4.
Lightly oil the wrapped tuna steaks on both sides. Place on the grill. Cook the steaks with the lid open, brushing with the lemon-butter sauce frequently but turning only once, to your desired doneness. Discard any sauce you don't use. Tuna typically is best when served rare to medium-rare, which should take a total of 5 to 6 minutes. Remove to a platter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and serve.
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